Last year, our institution participated in the #1Lib1Ref campaign organized by the Wikipedia Library to contribute citations to existing Wikipedia articles. We are hosting a similar even this year with the goal of contributing at least 100 citations. If you are not able to attend, but you still want to participate, please make your contributions by the end of February 3rd, 2018.
When: 12:00 P.M. on Thursday, February 1, 2018
Where: University Library, room 1130
How to Participate
Find an article that needs a citation
Use the Citation Hunt to find articles needing citations
Find a reliable source to support the article
Add a citation
After adding the citation, include the project hashtag #1Lib1Ref in the Edit Summary box
Share your contribution on social media
How to Add a Citation
Use the Citation Hunt tool to find articles in need of citations
This tool shows you a snippet of an existing Wikipedia article that needs a citation
A tag for [citation needed] displays where a citation needs to be inserted
Read the snippet and decide whether you want to find a citation to back up this statement
Or click on Next to view the next snippet available
You can also filter the article search by category by simply typing the info into the search box and selecting from the autocomplete drop-down list
When you find the article you want to work on, click on I got this! which will take you to the article page
Once on the article page, make sure you log in by clicking on Log In on the top right corner of the page
Search for a reliable source to back up the statement
Once you have the source you want to use, come back to the Wikipedia article and click on Edit
Find the [citation needed] tag
Place your cursor to the right of the tag and hit Delete to remove it
Click on Cite and paste the reference link into the Automatic tab. You can also input the reference using the Manual tab
When you are done inputing the citation, Click Generate and Insert
Lastly, include the project hashtag #1lib1ref in the Edit Summary area before saving the changes
And, don't forget to share your contribution on social media using #1Lib1Ref!
